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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
English FishiiIg-B Boats.

A description of the ordinary I
ing, boats OF England, as thai 4 4
appears to one OF the writers % =
Countrywide. L. ]. Jennings e
was formerly editor of the New
TImes,-will interest such reaaas,
are fond of boating. 1t IS taSsn y
the authors Field Paths and ~
Lanes:
1t takes nearly half an houl
launch one of these Hastings Dos 4
and such pulling and hauling IS !.
goes on, such shouting, such
with rollers, chains, and ropes z
would think the whole Royal
was being launched. When tlie 'ss
ering craft is a float, it takes AZ =.
a quarter of an hour more TO ees
sail set-more tugging at ropes,
wild rushing to and fro.
The sails are as filthy as u the'
been slowed away in n eoal,nole
patched all over, and are not W.
on rings, but hauled up bodily ms1l
inch. While they are being So,
ugly old tub rolls about a. the =.
of the waves, so that unless VIM
tide are both very fayoraph'
difficult to get it off at all. ~.
At last it waddles away, VIZ
dirty rags helping it along at tnS
of a knot or two an hour, ans
fishermen stare after it as II -
part with it.
Can anybody wonder that VIZ
great storm suddenly beats XII
coasts, so many Of these poor "
go down IN their wretched "a
boats which an American fisas',
would scarcely eondescend
with mussels or CLAIMS for NAM
a Long Island farm2
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
He Won Her by The soo,.

I'm exchange relates that q younp
gentleman happening to sit at church
In a pew adjoining one IN which sat q
young lady, for whom he conceived a
sudden I'M violent passion, was desir-
Gus OF entering into courtship on the
spot, but the place not suitinp a form.
a declaration, the exigency OF thecase
suggested the following plan: He no
liteiy handed his fair neighbor a Bible
lopen) with a pin stuck in the follow.
ing text, Second Epistle of st. John
verse fifth: "And now / beseech thee
lady, not as though | wrote n new
commandment unto thee, but that
which we had from the beginning, that
we love one another" She returned
1t, pointing to the second chanter of
Ruth, verse tenth-"Then she fell ON
her lace. and bowed herself to the
ground, and said unto him: "Whv
have found grace in thine ewes. that
thou shouldst take knowledge OF me.
seeing that | am a st~rauger?'' He re.
turned the book, pointing to the thir-
teenth verse OF the Third Epistle OF
John-"I had many things to write
1 VIII not with pen and ink write unto
thee. but | trust | shall shortly see
shee, and we shall speak face to face
from the above interview a marriage
took place the ensuing week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
Loneliness of a Great City,

A great city like a great desert, is a
lonely spot, not to its habitues, for
even the desert is a home TO some
forms OF life, but to all who comefrom
other parts and who learn that pain
tul truth that acrowd is not COMPANY.
How sh~ockingly this fact is brought
before us by the recent suicidenof q
young woman brought from the coun.
try by her husband and who only
survived her wedding day a fortnight.
They took board, and the husbands
business kept him absent the greater
part OF the time. The young bridefe eli
INTO dependency which became real
madness. She was crazed by solitude
and sought relief in self-inAicted death.
lt is a great mistake for men to brine
country brides hither, since the inevi.
table solitude is a fearful trial. Of
which l have met many painful in.
Business mel are required
to devote most of their time to their
regular vocations and even boarding.
ouses afford but little relief TO lone.
Illness. The unfortunate woman loft
among her last directions the reouest.
Send me home to my mother IN
ONO" Poor creature, she should not
have left Ohio to pine and perish in
the solitude OF a great city.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28


A most remarkable occurrence fol
lowed a negro funerals at Mount Pleas
ant, about sixty miles south of Nash
vile, Tenn, nine negroes being killed
by a single stroke of lightning. The
party had scarcely left the grave when
a most severe thunder and rain storm
burst upon them. All Immediately
ran for trees scattered about the
graveyard. Scarcely had the nine
negroes reached the shelter OF an i'm
menso oak when a terrific thunder.
cloud burst and the tree was struck
The whole party OF nine tumbled dow
together and died instantly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
AT ON avon.
DR.. Holmes Tells OF His Visit to the Hsus
Shakespeare.

Shakespeare.
My previous visit was q hurriedo "a
l took but a glimpse and then va
on my way. Now, for nearly a uad
| was a resident of Stratford on Asc1|
How shall / describe the ~periecftI
ideal beauty of the new home in Wild
/ found myself? 1t isa finehouse. "a
rounded by delightful grounds Wild
skirt the banks of the Avon Tor q cd
siderable distance and come ciose Z
to the enclosure of the Church Of
Holy Trinity, beneath the fcor :
which lie the mortal remains d
Shakespeare The Avon IS oDe
those narrow English rivers in vhz
half a dozen boats might he sd
side, but hardly wide enough 10
race between two rowing abreast
each other. Just here the Avon I
comparatively broad and qnie.. the1
being a dam a little lower down u
stream. The waters were a perbx
mirror, as | saw them on one d
still days we had at Stratford.
not remember ever before seeing cd
walking with their legs ntle ali, a
saw them reflected In the stream
Along the banks the young peor
we're straying. | wondered d q
youthfurswalns quoted ShakesPra(
to their lady loves. Could they hs
recalling Romeo and Juliet
quite impossible to think OF any q
man being growing up in this pan
which claims Shakespeare asits ehaz
about the streets OF which he ran 4
a boy, on the waters OF which hens
have hoated, without having fBn
age ever present. Is it so? There a
some boys from s to 10 or II yea
old, fishing in the Avon, close BY
grounds OF "Avoubank," the plact 8
which we are staying. call ton
little group: 81 say, boys. who =
this man Shakespeare people tax
much about?" Boys turn arounds1
look up with a plentiful lack oil tafs
gence in their countenancess spo*@
you know who he was nor whs71
was?" Boys looked at each on:
but confess ignorance. Let US tfy
universal stimulant OF human A.
ties. "Here are some pennies tott
boy that will tell ME what Mr.. she
speare was" The biggist boy %!
his tongue at last. "Hs was Q VIM
he wrote plays" That was
much as | could get out OF the you
ling.
remember meetings some boysnpe
the monument upon Bunker Hil q
testing their knowledge as | aad "
OF the Stratford boys. "Nhat
great stone pillar here for?' lasts
battle fought here-great Dal'x
"Who Fought" Americans
British" Il never hear the ezp's
sion Britishers. "Who was thegsae'
on the American sIde?" Don't kle
Gen. Washington or someoost
What is an old battle, thousn
may have settled the destInlesV
nation, to a game OF baseball Jew
the Boston and Chicago mines "
is to come off tomorrow, or to a.
OF marbles which Tom and pst
just going to play Together ana~s
shadow If the great obeEisk wnlcnye
memorates the conilict?-Dr. h0'-
in The Atlantic.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
ELDER BAKER,sIa5
Happy with MS Wives and a ST i s,
Mnanun

Musoufu.
From the New York Star.
Elder Joshua Baker, with thra.
and eight children fresh from 4
valley, Idaho, is now sharing ~
ors OF the Globe dime mnsenm oz
Bowery with the murdered Es
girl in wax and Casper Strombs@
papier mache. The elder IS 4
awkward man with wrinkled fa.]
a scanty beard and touzlea 4
The dry winds OF Cache have 8.
him the appearance OF a mar
would burn up very quickly iftos,
of with a match. His face i n b
punched southern type common :
the hills. It's expression il ~
and kindly.
Mr.. Baker was dressed in al
coat, black cravat, lean sh,ss
rough trousers. He and his /.
are now getting three square msss]
day. The Mrs. Bakers are nat i.
some, but they look very usef..i
children are OF various ases, AMI
having lots of fun scampering ~
the museum floor. All OF tIem
their mothers, are dressed n II
stuffs. Taken altogether, it seem
be II happy family. A plump wa,.
in a blue print dress who plavs
piano on the platform is somst,
mistaken for a fourth wife.
This is the elders account ~
self and his household in his No.
We air from Preston in carbs n
ley, Idaho. Preston IS a iafmira
Element OF eighty families. rnsss
which air Mormon. | was raiss5 +
Alabamy, and am 81 years IA
was converted by a Mormon mis-
airy before / left the state. NJ
fellers are all through the south
went to Idaho in 1871 witnao,ss
nowdead. Out thar / married /,
w, now A. She had come from ~
bamy, too. Ten years altar.
l took a liking to- Annie. q
cashire lass, now 81. She said ~
hev me if Jane w. was wiiIin, i
w. had no obieckshuns. Ths1
months after that | met Anne ri;s
a Scandinavian, now 32. We ~
to e Jane w. and Annie, and NJ
was willin' Anne Eliza should eous !;
Why, | hev knowed a man M Il.
after marrying a girl in the no,s;,
to hitch up and marry her irieni
the afternoon. The women liks
It amt lonely for 'em. Columns n
children by my first wife / hsy
eighteen altogether. i hey arao
children.
In the fall OF 1885, jim Hawlev q
territorial prosecuting officer at BiarT
foot, began to hump himself for r.
$50 which the Edmunds bill oBe,
for every polygamy conviction. VI
Jim convicted me. The a out ~
is that if you promise to live Nj
only one wife afterward they give
to you light. / promised, and 81
three months. Then | left thecburs
Preston might be too hot for me n,
They might want to kill M, but n
Just as leaf 90 back thar all the SAM
When ! get through here / am coju|
into the Panhandle in Texas. sbS|
live alone with Jane w. and her n
children. She has the biggest ~
on me. shall make homes for r.
other women and children, but thsy
all 20 along.
over a mile through the WOOD
There is not much hope fora boy n
this, although his parents had ii
christened Hope in his infancy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

By the decision of the general term
of the Supreme Court in New York
City, hotel-keepers may furnish wire
to guests with their meals on Sunday.
They are forbidden by an act of 1857
to sell or to give liquor to any one Oh
Sundays Or election days "as a bever
age" but the court holds that liouoi
furnished to. guests with meals as a
part of their entertainment was not
contemplated by the legislature under
the expression beverage" that the
barroom and drinking saloon, and
not the dining room, were aimed at
The application of the prohibition OF
the law Of 1857 to hotelkeepers wa
not made for thirty years, and the
present attempts is in the nature oil
the resurrection and the rigid and lit.
eral enforcement of a dead law.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

"a special from Washington says;
A gentleman who had talked with the
President a short time ago about his
western trip said the President is
anxious to visit the west during the
autumn, and / think you can make a
positive announcement that he and
his wife will be in st. Louis on Oct. ?.
He will also, ifpublic business will per
nit, make a circuit Of some ofthe ives
tern states planned some time ago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

Performers in a circus at Clinton. Iowa,
shoot four persons in the audience by mis-
take.
In the heat-afHicted cities OF Chicago, ST.
Louis and Cincinnati are denouncing ice as
the cause OF so much mortality during the
excessive heat.
The waterways convention ut Sault Ste.
Marie asks congress for the completion Of
the locks and improvement Of the channel
through Hay lake into Lake Huron, but
tables a proposal hat the government
purchase the Portage Lake canals and
make them free.
Dewitt II. NewlSirk oil Kingston, N. Y,
committed suicide. He was a see, 900 de.
faulter.
John Green, a eoiored ex-eonvict, now
living in Indiana, has sued in the federal
court n number OF citizens OF Hart county,
KY, for $50, 600 damages, charging them
with kukiuxing him.
William Bierd Page, of the Manhattan
Athletic Club of New York, twice touched
the bar at six feet three inches in attempt.
ing six feet two and three-fourth inches.
Mrs. Hattie Seymour, living near Nelson
vile, o., was murdered.
Frederick j. Calhoun, a well known Bos-
ton railroad man, is dead.
e. v. Wales. of Frederick, OAK, skipped
the town with a bundle OF money belong
ing to other people.
II. G. Burbank & Co, wholesale elothiers
of st. Paul, sustain $4,000 loss by fire.
Trouble about mining claims nearly re-
suits in the lynching OF three men at Phil
lipsburg, Mont.
At Cincinnati. Briggs & Swift's old pork
house. which was recently remodeled for
manufacturing purposes. was burned, in
~volviug q loss OF $50, 600.
The heaviest storm known at Pittsbure
for thirteen years occurred recently, and
the property damages reach 500, 600,
The name OF the German commercial
traveller who stabbed Retter, the French
customs officer. at Pagney-sur- Moselle is
not Anderbe, but Zangerle. He was form
srly n banker OF Paris. Headmits that ne
returned to France to kill some govern
ment agents. Ffourens, minister OF foreign
affairs, p%ronounces the incident unimport-
ant.
The interstate commission evolves an
important ediet ON a matter vitality inter
esting TO the railroads. II decides that
the payment OF commissions is o matter
with which each company may deal as it
pleases.
SyIvanus Cobb. Jr, the well known story
writer, died Mt Hyde Park. near Boston,
Of pneumonia. He was born in 1923.
President Garrett is authority for the
statement that the Baltimore q Ohio deal
has collapsed.
1t lie reported that Miss Alice Freeman,
president OF Wellesley College, has resigned
and will soon become the wife ola Harvard
professor.
The Washington Star had the following
editorial: Dakota's division convention
apparently voices the real opinion OF the
people OF the territory. North and South
Dakota wish to be separated. Each part
would then be equaled in size by very few
81 the states Of the Union. Opposition to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
Death Of a Noted yIrsiniau.

Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter died ut his home,
Eount Hill, Essex county, Virginia. Mr..
Hunter was born in 1908. He served sew
eral terms in the national house of repre-
tentatiyes, and being elected speaker OF
that body in 1899. subsequently he was
elected United States senator and made
chairman OF the senate finance committee
in 1919. winch position he !Ield till the
opening OF the war. He gave Douglas a
close run for the presidential no mination
at the national Democratic convention in
1860. During the wal he served rs con
iederate secretary Of state and confederate
senator. He was also n member
Of the peace commission. which met Abra-
ham Lincoln in Hampton Roads. After
the wal he was elected treasurer OF Yir-
sinia, holding that Office for several terms,
after which he retired ia private life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

1t is announced that Congressman
Holman, of Indiana. known as the
watch dog of the treasury for the past
quarter OF century, is to retire from
public life at the end OF his congress
sional term, in which he will have
served through fourteen congresses.
Next TO Iadge Kelly, OF Pennsylvania,
36lnan will have served a greater
Number OF years in congress than any
other member.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

Herr Krupp, the German steel max
er. is dead. His works at Essen we're
the largest industrial establishment
in the world. employing some twenty
Thousand workmen. He was famed
principally for his manufacture oil
steel cannon, which he made for the
German and other armies and n~ayies,
but he did a great variety of other
work in steel and iron, and was one
of the great captains of industry o.
this age.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

Gov. Hill OF New York, together
with the governors OF Massachusetts,
Vermont, Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania, has issued a circular inviting
each state to send representatives to
a cohference to be held in New York.
August %, to secure uniform regula.
tions as to interstate extraditions,
which are very much needed, owing to
the confusion of ideas upon that sub.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

The exploit of laying over ven
miles O railroad track on the Manito-
ba extension, west of Minot, in a sin
gle day is said to be unparalleled. The
contractors are Messrs. Shepard and
Winston of ST.. Paul. 1t is expected
that seven hundred miles of the route
will be completed this season. which is
also believed to be an unparalleled fact
OF railroad building.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

For some time past France has been
passing through a series OF demon
strations in honor of General Bou-
LANCER. 1t matters not whether the
general is in Paris or in the provinces,
MOI what the occasion may be, the
opening night of an opera. or the cele.
bration of the fall OF the Bastile, the
enthusiastic Frenchmen manage to
turn everything into q B~oulanger ova.
ton, but the administration remains
firm and a vast majority of the best
classes give it solid support.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

The full text OF the agreement be
tween the builders and the working
men OF Chicago has not been given to
tine public. but the controversy,
which has cost labor two and a hall
millions of dollars, is for the present
ended, and business in thedepartment
of building viii go on. The future
questions as to time and wages are
TO be settled by arbitration.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

In Philadelphia recently a piece OF
ground with a frontage of 10 feet on
sGhestnutrstreet and 34ieet ON Fourth
Street sold for s156 per square loot,
or at therate OF SO. 500, DOC per acre.
In New York asomewhat similar piece
Sid for $145 per square loot. Both
pieces were necessary to complete a
building.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

f.fn'the last year we have exported
l5.769,136 bushels OF wheat--inc,ud-
ing wheat and flour. This was almost
exactly one-third of our last wheat
crop and it was greater by 63 per
ceut. than the amount exported an
the preceding year. and it exceeded
the wheat exports of every year since
the year ending June 80, 1881.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

The official returns OF the foreign
commerce OF the port OF New York for
!. the month of June show chat the vol
ume OF importations during that
month was much greater thau that OF
the same month in 1856, and that
there has been a considerable decrease
in the value of merchandise exported.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

Early in the year, all tine weather
prophets promised a nice cool sum.
mer. They were a little off in their
calculations. and consequently out of
the respect formerly accorded there.
They may be reinstated however, by
promising q s'nice, cold" winter.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

TIE national treasury department
has decided that there is nothing in
the contract labor law to prevent
American citizens who may reside in
Canada from engaging in labor in the
United States.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

Russia, although bankrupt in mon.
ey and credit, has undertaken the
greatest public work of the age in
building a railroad across Siberia to
the Pacific, connecting with her
European railways. 1t will be more
important in a military than com.
mercial aspect, as it will enable the
transport of troops from st. Peters.
burg to the Pacific In 10 days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-23
An ALL NIGHT SESSION.
ParnelIItcs ObstIucting the Passage OF
a Government Bill in the House OF
Commons.

LONDON, March %.
The House of Commons remained in ses-
sion all night and at 6 o'clock this morning
was still sitting. The government was try
ing all the while to dispose of the naval and
civil service bills, but the Home Rule men,
bers, BY obstruction, prevented any action
being taken Two hundred aud sixty men,
bers W ere present, and at there was no
prospect OF adjournment.
ATS o'clock the House was still in CON-
mittee of supply. MIR. Raines, postmaster
general. relieved Mr.. Courtney, chairman OF
the committee, in the chair during the dis
cussion of the civil service bill. Mr.. ran
ner. member from Cork, informed the chair
man that fresh batch of eloquent Parnell-
ties would soon be on hand to reinforce the
opposition vote. At there was lkeilhood
that the House would rise before noon as
MIR. smith. the government leader. declared
that the civil service bill would have to De
nassed before adjournment took place.
Mr.. VIM II. Smith, the government leader,
arose amidst cheers and counter cheers IN the
House of Commons this evening, and moved
that the bill for the amendment of the crimi-
nal law in Ireland, have precedence over all
orders of the day. Mr. Smith said that ne
would refrain from stating the details OF the
measure, leaving that to the chief secretary
for Ireland. Referring to the amendment OF
which notice was given last night, by John
Morley. registering the declaration OF the ur-
cency for the government bill, Mr.. Smith re.
minded the house how Mr.. Gladstone resisted
the adoption of similar amendment IN 1881
The position of the government was the same
"a that of Mr.. Gladstones government then.
Regarding their amelioration policy towards
Ireland, the spesker said that the govern
ment's land bill would be divided into TWO
narts One of these would be Introduced I'M
nediately, and the other would be land pur
chase bill! of wide scope. Both measures
would be found to be framed on principles OF
honesty and justice. MIR. Smith SAID tnaI ne
hoped the House would speedily adopt the
government measures. 1t the House didot
sdopt them the government would De COM
nelled to ask the opinion of the country 10
either confirm their policy or relieve them OF
the responsibilities of government tCheers'}
Mr.. John Morley in moving the reJectioh
of the motion for the urgency denied aoso-
Intely Smiths assertion as to the lawiess
condition of ireland and demanded that the
government give comparative STATISTICS OF
crime in ireland which he said would sho"
thai beyond certain very narrow area the
country had seldom been quieter. He couio
only regard the bill as measure designed
IN enable landlords to exact exorbitant rents,
throwing the law on the side of the rich, re-
moving all coercive or protective power
which derived from the combining and put